Word: courts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of testimony presented by state police investigators, the Court ruled there was insufficient evidence to show criminal action by any person...
...another action, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson said he has filed with Superior Court a bill of equity contending that the absentee ballots previously identified by the District Court are invalid because they had been marked with the names and addresses of the voters...
...sieges in Galveston, Mrs. Steven Culpepper. an Abilene housewife with one son of her own, heard of his plight and undertook to care for him. Her aim: major surgery, for permanent correction of Phillip's physical defects. For almost two years, no hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left" kidney from Phillip Culpepper's right...
...Queen's Tutors. Some fairly surprising personal views emerge from Russell's book. His aristocratic father had wanted him brought up an agnostic. Orphaned at three, he was made a ward of Queen Victoria's court, but all the Queen's tutors and all the Queen's nannies couldn't put Bertrand's faith together. By the time he left Cambridge in 1894, a philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell...
...Supreme Court Justice in a steam bath is divested not only of shirt, shorts, socks, shoes, pants, and robe of office. but of his authority. So argues Author Lawrence Langner, director of the Theatre Guild, authority on patent law and, in this volume, theorist on the use and abuse of clothes. Writes Langner, with the fervor of a textile magnate enjoying a martini after a board meeting: If it were not for the invention of clothes, "there would be precious little religion, government, society, law and order, [or] morals...